Lethal Injections News Today

Reprieve, an anti-death penalty organization, just released a horrifying report detailing the pattern of botched lethal injections which disproportionately affected a certain demographic of inmates: Want to take a guess who? It’s Black folks.

In April 2021, the state attorney generals office entered into an agreement with attorneys for death row prisoners to suspend executions. | World News

With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning to alternative and highly controversial execution methods. Michelle Del Rey reports

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry out capital punishment.

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Attorneys for the inmates also plan to argue Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow lethal injections to restart keeps secret too many details about the new drug and protocol used to kill prisoners. In the balance are the death sentences of 33 inmates who are on South Carolina&#x...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Attorneys for the inmates also plan to argue Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow lethal […]

In terms of humane-ness, it’s hard to see how nitrogen hypoxia is an improvement over lethal injection yet some Republicans want Ohio to be use it.

Ohio hasn’t conducted an execution since 2018, but now look to follow Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma

The execution marked the first use of a new method of capital punishment in the U.S. since lethal injections in 1984, drawing widespread global condemnation.

The gas is to be pumped into Kenneth Eugene Smith's body through a mask under the untested method.